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Garfield senior RB Tyson Gulley had a 20-yard run in the fourth quarter and some tough 5-yard carries in the annual North-South Game on Friday night in Columbus, according to Garfield coach Bob Sax. Gulley has signed with Syracuse.

The New England Patriots drafted Twinsburg native Zoltan Mesko in the fifth round of the 2010 NFL Draft with the 150th selection.

Mesko, a 6-foot-4 and 240 pound left-footed punter from the University of Michigan, led the Big 10 in 2009 with 52 punts for an average of 44.5 yards, a long of 66 yards and 15 inside the opponents 20-yard line.

As we reported earlier, Orrville junior LB Max Pirman orally committed to Indiana this past weekend. Orrville coach Doug DaVault said Pirman enjoyed the campus environment and the Indiana coaches so he decided to commit.

Pirman, who is 6 feet 5 and 220 pounds, had nine scholarship offers, including the latest offer from Kansas. DaVault said Nebraska was scheduled to visit northeast Ohio this week and Duke was very interested.

Medina High School recently named Larry Laird as its head football coach.

Laird served as Avon Lake’s associate head coach and offensive coordinator for the past nine years. He helped the Shormen to seven state playoff appearances in the past eight years, including a state runner-up appearance in 2004 and a state championship in 2003.

Ohio State University senior softball player Courtney Pruner recently earned a Big Ten Player of the Week honor after she went 6-for-7 at bat with seven RBI and three runs scored in a two-game series split with Illinois in Champaign.

Pruner, an Ellet High School graduate, hit two home runs, including a grand slam in Ohio State's 10-2 victory in game two of the series Sunday. She also made a critical diving catch in right field in the bottom of the second inning to limit the Illini to just one run in game two.

Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy freshman Nathan Tomasello won a FILA Cadet Nationals championship in freestyle wrestling on Sunday at the University of Akron's Stile Field House.

Tomasello defeated Jacob Schmitt of Michigan in the final to win the 101.25-pound weight class. The victory allows Tomasello to possibly compete in the upcoming Pan American Qualifier in Mexico and the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Singapore.

North Canton Hoover senior Cory Veldhuizen recently signed a national letter of intent to attend Malone University and play basketball for the Pioneers.

Veldhuizen, a 6-foot-5 forward, was a three-year basketball lettermen for the Vikings. He was named first-team All-Federal League, first-team All-Northeast Inland District Team, third-team All-Ohio and helped Hoover to a Federal League and district championship in 2009 along with a runner-up appearance in 2010.

St. Vincent-St. Mary junior RB-DB Doran Grant has reportedly been offered by Oklahoma, according to ScoutingOhio.com.

Grant is one of the nation's top recruits in the 2011 class. He also reportedly has offers from Syracuse, Ohio State, Arizona, Boston College, Penn State, LSU, Georgia, Cincinnati, Michigan, USC, Stanford and several others.

Paul Farrah resigned Thursday as Louisville High School's football coach.

Farrah is a 1984 Louisville High School graduate. He took over the Louisville football team in 1999 and led the Leopards to the Division II state championship game in 2007, where they lost to Cincinnati Anderson.